Ethnic theater in the United States encompasses many different "minority" groups, often with varying backgrounds anywhere from Mexican-American, Chinese-American, Jewish, to Black. The works of ethnic plays often seek to comment on society, or even the impulses of human nature. They highlight the oppression, and wrong doing of their people, often to stir change or at the very least thought on society and perhaps the motivations behind the people of yesteryear. It also seeks to embolden the struggles economically, or even culturally of these groups adjusting to an "Americanized" society. Imagine seeking to balance your ethnic identity with your identity as an American, and finding what that means to you, this is what many ethnic plays seek to address and envision. These plays attempt to outline our similarities while showing our differences as aspects of ourselves to be praised and encouraged. Ethnic theater has had a rough begging but, seems to have a bright future.